A Vietnam-based field-program operator for international schools and universities.
Scivi Travel designs and operates education-led programs in Vietnam for K–12 schools, universities, faculty teams, study abroad offices, and selected institutional partners. Our work covers Vietnam school trips and school tours, faculty-led programs, field schools, study abroad support, service learning, academic field visits, and alumni or institutional learning programs.
Scivi is based in Ho Chi Minh City. That matters because our work is built from the field outward: route design, local partner coordination, teacher and faculty support, transport timing, meals, hotels, guide briefing, safety-aware movement, and day-by-day adjustment when a program is already on the ground.
Our experience is not the same in every market, so we state it clearly: Australian K–12 school groups since 2012, higher-education programs since 2017, and North American K–12 school groups since 2024. Scivi is also a SETO member, and our higher-ed work includes university programs such as NTU’s University Scholars Programme.
K–12 school tours and school trips
Vietnam programs for international schools, including Australian and New Zealand school tours, North American K–12 groups, service learning, cultural immersion, teacher support, pre-trip preparation and post-trip reflection.
University and faculty-led programs
Vietnam-side support for faculty-led programs, field schools, study abroad programs, academic field visits and short-term university programs, with higher-education experience since 2017, including NTU’s University Scholars Programme.
Field operations in Vietnam
Route logic, local partner access, guide briefing, hotel and meal coordination, transport pacing, safety-aware movement and practical adjustment during live programs.
Australian K–12 since 2012
Vietnam school tours and service-learning programs for dozens of Australian school groups, with attention to teacher support, pre-trip preparation, parent-facing clarity, student pacing and post-trip reflection.
Higher education since 2017
Faculty-led programs, field schools, academic field visits, study abroad support and short-term university programs, including NTU’s University Scholars Programme, that need Vietnam-side program design, local coordination and field delivery.
North American K–12 since 2024
School group support for North American partners and institutions, with the same Vietnam-side focus on safety-aware movement, teacher support, program pacing and field coordination.
Why we do it this way
Many programs are designed to be efficient, measurable, and easy to deliver. They can be engaging, even exciting, but often leave very little behind once the trip ends.
We don’t see that as enough.
The environments we work in — Vietnam and across Southeast Asia — are not clean or simplified. They are fast-moving, contradictory, and often uncomfortable. Development and stagnation, order and chaos, wealth and inequality exist at the same time, in the same place.
For us, this is not something to smooth over. It is the point.
These conditions create a kind of real-world setting where participants are not given answers, but are required to interpret, question, and make sense of what they encounter. What they take away is not a predefined lesson, but a way of seeing — one that continues to shape how they understand the world and their place in it.
How this shapes our programs
This philosophy directly shapes how we design and run programs.
We work with smaller groups, not because it is easier, but because meaningful engagement requires proximity. It allows us to understand each group — students, teachers, or participants — and adjust in real time as situations evolve.
Programs are structured enough to run reliably, but not over-scripted. The intention is not to control every outcome, but to create conditions where participants can engage with real environments in a way that feels grounded and personal.
Smaller groups
Proximity makes meaningful engagement possible and allows real-time adjustment.
Grounded structure
Programs are reliable enough to run well, but open enough for real environments to matter.
Context-led response
We respond to situations based on context, people, and proportion, not rigid procedure alone.
Field presence
How students are asked to be present matters.
For Scivi, a field program is not only a route through Vietnam. It is a way of helping students enter places with attention, restraint, relationship, and care.
How our work connects
Two connected strands strengthen Scivi’s field-based work
Scivi Travel focuses on education-led and field-based programs in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. SaigonWalks and Vietnam Group Operator support that focus in different ways, without changing what Scivi is built to do.
SaigonWalks
SaigonWalks functions as our Ho Chi Minh City urban experience studio. It gives us a practical space to develop short walks and city modules around route design, observation, pacing, and place-based interpretation.
The same discipline informs longer Scivi programs, especially when students need to read a city through everyday life rather than through landmarks alone.
Vietnam Group Operator
Vietnam Group Operator extends our operating base for alumni, affinity, private, and cultural groups across Vietnam.
That work keeps us close to the operational realities that matter in any serious program: supplier reliability, regional logistics, group comfort, contingency planning, timing, and live coordination.
Selected partners and customers
A selection of schools, universities, and institutions connected to Scivi programs across K–12 school groups, higher-education programs, faculty-led travel, field-based learning and institutional groups.
The team behind it
Our team comes from different backgrounds — finance, operations, and travel — but we share a similar way of seeing the work.
What began as a general interest in travel gradually shifted toward something more specific: building learning environments outside the classroom that are shaped by culture, community, and human interaction.
We tend to work in small, closely connected teams. Over time, this has allowed us to develop a way of operating that relies less on formal process and more on shared understanding. In practice, this means fewer layers, quicker decisions, and a more direct response when things need to change.
When things don’t go as planned
Programs rarely go exactly as planned — especially in the environments we work in.
When that happens, we don’t default to rigid contingency plans or try to force the experience back on track. Instead, we respond based on context, people, and what the situation actually requires at that moment.
Because our programs are not over-scripted to begin with, adjustments can be made without breaking the overall structure. Issues are handled in ways that feel proportionate and appropriate, rather than procedural.
In many cases, how a program responds to disruption becomes more valuable than the original plan itself.
What this leads to
We do not try to manufacture impact.
Instead, we focus on creating the conditions for careful learning: real engagement, proximity, humility, and environments that cannot be simplified.
When those conditions are in place, the outcomes tend to follow. If this way of working fits what you are looking for, continue the conversation here.